The ’Flora Incognita’ app has received new artificial intelligence
The 'Flora Incognita' app has received new artificial intelligence "Flora Incognita," Germany's most popular plant identification app, has received new artificial intelligence - as a result, the number of plant species that can be determined has tripled: Around 16,000 species can now be identified worldwide. In addition, the app, which is now available in 20 languages, now also works in offline mode, and its digital educational offering includes a wealth of new information, such as improved distribution maps of many species. Scientists at TU Ilmenau and the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry Jena equipped Flora Incognita with an improved technological basis of self-learning deep neural networks. Prof. Patrick Mäder, head of the Data-intensive Systems and Visualization Group and project leader of Flora Incognita at TU Ilmenau, and the research team from Jena have put a lot of effort into developing innovative machine learning training methods for these networks in recent months: "We applied them right away to the Flora Incognita app, and as a result, millions of images of plants worldwide could be processed in our data center at TU Ilmenau. With the right images, the new networks are now able to classify many plant species with an accuracy of almost 100 percent." For the new app version, usability and accessibility have also been improved. For example, plant finds can now be created without network reception and later determined automatically. In addition, a new game-like element has been introduced: Users can collect badges for documenting certain plant groups.
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